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  • Empty Politics Pose Biggest Threat to U.S. Power: Clive Crook

    Theorists of American decline are preoccupied with the surging growth of emerging rivals, especially China. That’s an important issue, I don’t doubt. But there’s a much bigger threat to U.S. power: the increasingly abject failure of the country’s own political class.

  • Santorum’s Senate Clashes Raise Ex-Colleagues’ Leadership Doubts

    Rick Santorum’s opening act as a freshman senator in 1995 was an attempt to strip the title from the Republican chairman of the appropriations committee, which determines government spending.

  • Conrad Says an Economic Crisis May Be Only Way to Prod Lawmakers on Debt

    An economic catastrophe like the debt crisis in Europe or a Middle East conflict may be the only way to get congressional action this year on a broad reduction of the U.S. deficit, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said.

  • Romney Said to Ready More Detailed Plan to Overhaul Tax Code

    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is preparing to release a more detailed plan to overhaul the tax code soon, said a person who attended a policy roundtable event with Romney in Washington yesterday.

  • Simpson Says ‘Terrified’ Obama Walked Away From Deficit Issue

    President Barack Obama “walked away” from his bipartisan U.S. deficit-cutting commission’s plan “because he knew he’d be torn to bits,” said former Republican Senator Alan Simpson, who was co-chairman of the panel.

  • Simpson Says Obama ‘Walked Away’ From Deficit Issue (Transcript)

    Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who was co-chairman of Barack Obama’s bipartisan deficit-reduction commission, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend, that the president “walked away” from the issue in his annual State of the Union speech to Congress “because he knew he’d be torn to bits.”

  • Podesta: Criticism of Romney is Fair

    Criticism of Mitt Romney by Republican rivals over his private-equity record at Bain Capital LLC is fair and will haunt him in November, said John Podesta, a former Democratic White House chief of staff.

  • Senators Warner, Corker Press for Action on Broad Debt Reduction

    Two of the Senate’s top advocates of a long-term deficit-cutting plan said lawmakers must continue to press for legislation that can pass this year, even as they disagreed on whether an election-year deal is possible.

  • Huntsman’s Future Depends on Fine-Tuning His Big Ideas Now: View

    The presidential campaign of Jon M. Huntsman Jr. has always had the feel of a trial run for 2016. He didn’t bother to compete in Iowa, and his organization in the two upcoming primary states, South Carolina on Jan. 21 and Florida on Jan. 31, is threadbare. He fought hard in New Hampshire, though, and eked out only a respectable third-place behind Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, failing to win the breakthrough he sought from yesterday’s primary.

  • Voices of Gingrich Critics Grow Along With His Standing in Polls

    The higher Newt Gingrich’s presidential candidacy rises, the more vocal and numerous his Republican critics become.

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